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Ebay search fix.
obfripper - 23/1/16 at 08:30 PM

Frustrated with Ebay's item compatibility function giving you irrelevant results?
Next time you search for something on Ebay and get 1000 useless results that 'may fit', add -bc to your search term and you will get relevant results that contain your search terms only.

Without -bc
With -bc

Dave

Slimy38 - 23/1/16 at 09:01 PM

There's a simple reason for this. The garbage results come back from the 'automatic search expansions'. What you're doing is telling it to use an advanced search operator, and then as per this statement on Ebay;

quote:
Note: Using any advanced search operator will turn off automatic search expansions.


It's the minus sign that's the operator, the 'bc' letters are just something random to exclude. You can do '-aubergine' if you want, it will still work (as long as you're not searching for an aubergine of course).

Quinten - 23/1/16 at 11:30 PM

Well, I for one, wasn't aware of this, so I will now use this from now on... cheers!

snapper - 24/1/16 at 07:01 AM

I will use this with -aubergine as I never ever want aubergine
Thank you for saving me from unnecessary aubergine exposure